Daydream thread continues.....

COOLTRIKERCHICK

sorry LIR and here is me wottling on about the guitars, and me having a mini meltdown, an you have this coming up...


edit.... also good that you do have options for other potential horses you cant go an see yourself..

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

sorry LIR and here is me wottling on about the guitars, and me having a mini meltdown, an you have this coming up...


edit.... also good that you do have options for other potential horses you cant go an see yourself..

How DARE you apologise :rotfl: silly Ctc

We all have stuff going on Ctc. I can assure you, if our instruments had been stolen I would be more upset than with the health stuff ATM. BUT REGARDLESS, what is going on for all of us is different....happiness, sadness....they are not to be lined up against each other and measured.

Eat a biscuit, be happy and proud of your resourcefulness and good friends. (Now wishing I was a biker.......I'd be terrified :rotfl:)

COOLTRIKERCHICK

ok if you insist I will raid the biswit barrel:D:D:D

Just had more news.. but you couldn't make this up as a story line..if you tried

it just so happens their court hearing date is on the same day, at the same court that we have got to go to on another matter :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Hubby is grinning from ear to ear...


after us not going to the pig auction on Friday, I am now looking around on the free ad style pages looking for weaners for sale, so if you come across any in south wales and the west.. let me know...

rhiwfield

CTC...alls well that ends well :j

Lir, must be so frustrating for you, hugs!

Well, the chooks are ensuring that we have plenty of eggs and the asparagus is providing a serving every couple of days . Salad crops are growing well but overall seed germination has been poor, possibly because most seeds I used were bought a year ago .

The hawthorn has been in full bloom for a week now and the purple haze of massed chives in the rose beds are full of bees, late but still very welcome.

Business a bit manic atm in a good way, but at this rate I'll end up paying more tax than Google :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

alfie_1

:j:j :beer::beer: such good news CTC....i knew you/your "associates" would crack it...power of the people..;)

take heart that you must be good people for others to help with the RESCUE.:D

well my weekend was fab...:D weather was great, big waves over night ,bit cloudy this morning but hot this afternoon [and yesterday] i got a HOLE IN ONE playing golf...:T ok ok it WAS crazy golf but....;)

i inadvertantly celebrated for CTC last night by getting sloshed... :rotfl: i dont often drink but ....

the dogs have been good for mum albeit apparently bimble sneeked sas style onto the sofa the minute she turned her back !!:rotfl:

im absolutely kernacked now....

sorry if ive not answered / commented on all...

Davesnave

So glad all the instruments have been found and the toe-rags will be up before the Beak.

See, I told you they'd probably be fick!

How fantastic that it all ended in a reunion with your old mates down at the Gower.

Alex, time wasn't right, I guess. Time for a re-think? Similar thing happened to us when Westcountry prices suddenly took off in the early noughties. Eventually this led us to investigate Wales.....

Lucielle, I've just remembered what happened after we went mortgage free.....My Dad died and left us with a £30k annuity to pay off, so we had to mortgage our house to raise it! :rotfl:

I'm a bit short-handed here, as DW has gone to Geneva for a week with relatives of DD1's in-laws. I think the weather may break a bit from Tuesday or Wednesday, so I've spent almost all day weeding! :eek:

Oh, glad you had the break you deserved Alfie (well, you probably deserved longer really! :A)

rozeepozee

Something. Fox? Magpie? Was bouncing on the roof of the caravan at dawn. Woke me up. The only chance I've had to catch up since earlier this week.

CTC, soooo happy to hear you've got the geets back. I kept trying to share your FB posts but for some reason I couldn't. It must be a bit like winning the lottery!

Well done, Lucielle, too. Debt and financial worries are one of the things that really stress me out. Not had those worries for years now. This housebuild has revived them a little but we're not borrowing for it, thankfully.

Alf, glad you're sorting your dad out in a way everyone is happy. We have complex care issues in our family with my mum and her brother both in their 70s trying to care for my gran in her 90s. It's no picnic.

Our first week on the whole was actually pretty good. There was so much progress: out house and conservatory demolished, loft ripped out, footings dug and concrete in. The cost implication since my last post was learning we had to did the footings half a metre deeper as we're on heavy clay with mature trees close by. This meant removing an additional gazillion loads of clay, figuring out what to do with it (this is where having land to deposit it around comes into its own), loads more concrete to fill the footings and more block work. But we don't want to skimp on something as important as foundations. I've spoken to quite a few people this week who've had expensive underpinning done round here.

We're also realising that the provisional cost sum for the plumbing may not be enough, but we kind of knew that and want to build a system we can add on to.

So this week, we have plumbing issues, structural surveyor's assessment and footings to finish. Weather is still glorious, although, as of yesterday, the air is chiller. We are mainly in an excited mind frame. This build has been a long time coming, the warm weather and outside life is helping us realise what an incredible location we live in and how bloody amazing it is to own our little "island" (we have a boundary of two country lanes to the front and top of our triangular four-ish acres and an unused footpath to the rear) is to live on. I'm even loving our glorious field of creeping buttercup.

CTC, I could never imagine being too hot in the UK. I am really quite cold blooded and even in this mini heatwave, I've only ever taken off the top fleece, leaving on my lightweight one!

Another positive note, the builders are fab here every day at 7.45am, hard working, interesting blokes. OH is really enjoying labouring with them and his being hands on all day means he can answer any queries immediately, building control is a nice guy and we're glad to have our QS as our on call overseer. It's all good

lostinrates

Feeling a little more positive about the food situation. Absolutely nothing done in the veg patch all year. This a very sore point and not worth going into.

But finally we have some tomatos forming, apples seem to be a heavy crop, more than I hoped for. Currants, which love it here, always crop heavily and shouldn't be too long. Raspberries look good. If all I do is fill the freezer with apples and berries its something.

Davesnave

I have the builder here this morning too, putting the Yorkshire board on the gable end on the barn. Once that's done, I'll look at his methods and copy, as appropriate, for the back & front.

I've planted our oca and yacon in the poly. I wasn't impressed with outdoor results from the oca last year.

It seems I have two rows of volunteer potatoes, which doesn't say much for the way I lifted them! :rotfl:

Good to hear you are making progress with the build rozee and feeling so positive. We're on an 'island' too, with the road, a farm lane and the stream making up the 3 sides of our triangle.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

If all I do is fill the freezer with apples and berries its something.

Fruit is always worth it, as are salad green stuff, radishes and probably cucumbers. I've always done some toms too.

As for the other summer/autumn things, like peppers, they're quite labour intensive and fairly hard to justify on anything other than taste grounds.